Getting error while trying to do a two way sync between CVS and darcs.

[srinathava@…]

Hi,

I tried out tailor on a new test CVS repository which I created just for testing. The CVS->darcs direction syncing works fine, but when I try the sync in the darcs->CVS direction, I get problems. It looks like tailor calls cvs rlog with a buggy time stamp causing the problem.

I am attaching a sample test-run of what I tried. Hopefully this makes things clearer. The actual error message from CVS is towards the end.

Thank you, Regards, Srinath

[Lele Gaifax]

Trying out your testcase script (thanks :-) I notice the following, in random order:

1. In such a scenario, you must use two different state files for the two projects, something like the following single config, containing both projects (then, you can do tailor --configfile thisfile.tailor cvs-to-darcs to process just one of them)

   [DEFAULT]
   verbose = True
   
   [cvs-to-darcs]
   target = darcs:repo
   start-revision = INITIAL
   root-directory = /tmp/tailor/hybrid
   state-file = c2d.state
   source = cvs:repo
   
   [darcs-to-cvs]
   target = darcs:repo
   start-revision = INITIAL
   root-directory = /tmp/tailor/hybrid
   state-file = d2c.state
   source = cvs:repo
   
   [darcs:repo]
   module = modname
   repository = /tmp/tailor/dmaster
   
   [cvs:repo]
   module = modname
   repository = /tmp/tailor/cvsroot
   

2. The final error is due to an unfortunate code in cvs.py that assume a date was specified whenever a patchname begins with a digit. I'll try to stick a stronger check. The obvious workaround is using "-m 'Patch $(wc -l foo)'" as commit messages, instead of just a number. But I'll recheck the case, since it shouldn't reach that point anyway...

[srinathava [at] gmail.com]

Hi,

Thanks for the clarification. I tried to get a simpler test case working and I still get problems. Now tailor seems to report that everything is okay but infact, the hybrid/ and dmaster/ repositories are not synced up as they should be. I tried the config file exactly from your post.

With this config and the testcase2.sh file attached, dmaster/foo contains one more line than hybrid/foo. I would expect that at the end of this script, all files in all repos should contain the same info.

Another thing which concerns me is that some of the .log and .tailor files which are used by tailor seem to be added to the darcs repos during the bootstrapping. I am unsure whether this is something which I should be specifying as an option.

Thanks,

Regards,

Srinath